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B-413366 1 (2016-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadspb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 .DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Vista Technical Services, LLC File: B-413366 Date: October 3, 2016 S. Lane Tucker, Esq., Stoel Rives LLP, for the protester. Robert K. Tompkins, Esq., Gordon Griffin, Esq., and Leila George-Wheeler, Esq., Holland & Knight, LLP, for Bowhead Professional Solutions, LLC, an intervenor. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Brian A. Tuftee, Esq, Department of the Army, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency should have rejected awardee's proposal as noncompliant with the solicitation because it did not offer a particular number of staff hours is denied; solicitation required each offeror to propose its own staffing plan and estimated level of effort, and did not require proposal of a particular number of staff hours. DECISION Vista Technical Services, LLC, of San Antonio, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Bowhead Professional Solutions, LLC, of Alexandria, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W52P1 J-1 5-R-5000, issued by the Department of the Army for software application development and maintenance services. Vista alleges that the agency should have rejected the proposal of Bowhead as unacceptable. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplates the award of a labor-hours type contract for a base year and four 1-year options to provide software application development and maintenance services on an as-needed basis. Firms were advised that the agency would make award on a best-value basis, considering price, and two non-price factors, technical (deemed significantly more important than price) and past performance (deemed slightly more important than price). RFP Attachment 10, Evaluation Factors, at 1.

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